My favorite color made an appearance this morning at breakfast. Between Devrim's shirt, our coffee mugs, bowls and the kitchen walls, it was a turquoise dream come true. If only all our breakfasts were this colorful.
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15 June 2009
Turquoise Breakfast
My favorite color made an appearance this morning at breakfast. Between Devrim's shirt, our coffee mugs, bowls and the kitchen walls, it was a turquoise dream come true. If only all our breakfasts were this colorful.
Sugar Pink
The sugar pink of this spread in June's Elle Decor Turkey transports me back to my bedroom when I was thirteen. It was on the top floor of our new house that we had moved to from St. Paul, MN to Wauwatosa in Milwaukee. There was a pink tiled bathroom on that floor and the attic. Someone had decided there was room for that bathroom and a garret bedroom with built in trunks under a window. Because the roof was so prominent, there wasn't one spot where the wall was taller than me, so I had these low walls against which I put a desk, and my books on built-in bookshelves painted white. The wall behind my bed I papered in a kind of country floral rose, with muted purples, mauves and green vine. From my window I could see over everybody else and down into backyards. It was the perfect room for a 13 year old girl, but we moved by the time I was 15. I still remember the carpeting being blue and plush. I wonder if the occupants of the house now have ever replaced the pink shower stall with a monthly breast exam sticker stuck to the tile that I was fascinated by. At 13, I had to wonder. My dad's bathroom was all over green tile. It was a fantastic house excepting the 'updates' like wall to wall carpeting.
This issue is still on the shelves until the end of this month if anyone would like a copy. There are some other delicious spreads in there, too.
20 May 2009
Red and Aqua
My two favorite colors in the whole world meet in our kitchen. The vintage stitching that I had framed here in Turkey is from Emily Lynch Vintage, and the apron was my mother's, given to me last year by my grandmother. I love the country home feel of it, which is fitting because we grew up in a country home. The small framed embroidery next to the apron on the door was made by my friend Jill.
13 March 2009
Designer Portfolio : Steven Miller
This beautiful pink bedroom from Steven Miller is, I agree with H&G, not too overwhelming despite the layered hues. My favorite part of the room is the backdrop molding on the walls. I love how paint can create such a stage for the rest of the room.
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23 September 2008
Styrofoam Pink
The first coat of paint went on the walls of our bedroom last night, and well, how can I say this delicately?... it looks like pink insulation. It should be called Styrofoam Pink in the catalog. This little diagram below should explain pretty clearly:
It's been plaguing me all day. Of course, it is the first coat and you can see the beige below because the painter did not use a primer. So after another coat, it'll be smooth and lovely, right? And once our dark furniture is in there, it'll contrast in a nice way? Oh, and the painter accidentally started with turquoise in our bedroom, and as everybody knows (or should know), intensely pigmented colors are impossible to cover without a primer. So you can see a lovely smear of turquoise below my insulation pink bedroom wall. Which means I'm going to sandpaper the spot myself where he painted the turquoise and try to start from scratch.
Edges? I've had better moments than when I saw blotch after blotch of paint on the ceiling and on the doorframe. See, the thing is, the person we hired is a painter. He doesn't bring brushes. He doesn't buy the paint. He doesn't clean the walls. He only paints. It is our job to sand, tape, and prime unless we tell him and supply him with the materials. So, it is our fault we didn't give him painter's tape to go around the edges. But he didn't tell us we needed to give it to him in the first place. Any he didn't tell us the roller we got is wrong for the walls, either. He painted the room first, and then told us. This is why my brain hurts right now. I can't quite figure out how it was supposed to happen.
The most positive thing about the pink walls so far is that while searching for a image of pink insulation, I was brought to the work of Kim Beck, above, who was written about in Minutia, and whose work I love. Would I set up my bedroom in her installation, though? Probably not. Will be thinking about either toning down the pink with some white or crossing my fingers that the gorgeous warm pink we picked from 1,001 colors will emerge once the second coat is up.
It's been plaguing me all day. Of course, it is the first coat and you can see the beige below because the painter did not use a primer. So after another coat, it'll be smooth and lovely, right? And once our dark furniture is in there, it'll contrast in a nice way? Oh, and the painter accidentally started with turquoise in our bedroom, and as everybody knows (or should know), intensely pigmented colors are impossible to cover without a primer. So you can see a lovely smear of turquoise below my insulation pink bedroom wall. Which means I'm going to sandpaper the spot myself where he painted the turquoise and try to start from scratch.Edges? I've had better moments than when I saw blotch after blotch of paint on the ceiling and on the doorframe. See, the thing is, the person we hired is a painter. He doesn't bring brushes. He doesn't buy the paint. He doesn't clean the walls. He only paints. It is our job to sand, tape, and prime unless we tell him and supply him with the materials. So, it is our fault we didn't give him painter's tape to go around the edges. But he didn't tell us we needed to give it to him in the first place. Any he didn't tell us the roller we got is wrong for the walls, either. He painted the room first, and then told us. This is why my brain hurts right now. I can't quite figure out how it was supposed to happen.
The most positive thing about the pink walls so far is that while searching for a image of pink insulation, I was brought to the work of Kim Beck, above, who was written about in Minutia, and whose work I love. Would I set up my bedroom in her installation, though? Probably not. Will be thinking about either toning down the pink with some white or crossing my fingers that the gorgeous warm pink we picked from 1,001 colors will emerge once the second coat is up.
